Man And His Tie

"It is a curious tning," sald thé j groomed girl, as töie gave hor Scotch plaid cravat a professional ti; got it into shape, according to t New York Advertiser, "to uote I ■'■ Ie afflnity between tke youup, . , i : bis necktie. Talk oL tho s! the man! In these days of so culino attire the tie nine timts ou: oL ten, öeziotes the individual, and, above all, his humor. Observo how he has fingered his tie and you shall know hls mood. When I meet Reggie, for i stance, pranclng down the etreet ot an afternoon, with a llttle shopherd's plaid necktlo twisted into the most rakish of bows, then I know tliat he has an appointment with Amanda at 5 o'clock, and that tho lady has a inind to listen to Ihis suit. Other days I espy hlm in something limp and forlorn and lavender-colored. This is not a lucky day with Reginald, and if you fail to make good your escape he may go eo far as to talk of his difficulMes, while for tuppence he will teil you of the perfldy of the whole female sex. "Tnere are men - and worthy citizons, too - who always wear blood-red slik about their throats. There are others who will adorn themselves with ready-mado bows whicb. bucklc in Bome mysterious fashion at the back; but this variety of the genus homo is held by the well-dreesed to be beyond the pale. Tiiere is yet another sort of man who invariably wears the most modest little pin-points or stripes. The color of his tie Is dark blue or black; its texture is corded slik and he wears it in a rather depressed-looking eailor's knot. This is the kind of young man you can depend upon. He ie neat, careful, modest, ccnscientious, honorable and of good report. But, to teil the strlct truth, he is not always deliriously amusing. On the other hand, beware of the youth who wears an enormous cravat, frothing out on his unmanly bosom. He is, alas! too of ten a bad-tongued little gossip and would sacrifico you - or his grandmother - in order to set the teatable in a roar."